Alternative Title

The Baltz phenomenon : thoughts about its limitated spreading and notoriety

Abstract

This study is about the work of Henri Baltz, a primary teacher of the region of Voiron (Isère) where he taught from 1941 to 1973. He created an empiric method for learning spelling and grammar, whose spreading has been limited yet. Starting from both analysis of this fact and of his own attempt of theorical justification, compared with other methods of the same time but better known, this study deduces the causes which promote the wideners of the spreading of teaching method and defines which constitues the specificity of our teaching work.